The Tuba Mirum is one of my favorites from Mozart's Requiem. I played this at my first year at Gordon, and although the orchestra was horrible, we got to play with some amazing opera vocalists. My favorite part is the tenor's solo. Mmmmm so delicious.
Here's the English translation:
| Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum. | The trumpet will send its wondrous sound throughout earth's sepulchres and gather all before the throne. |
| Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura, judicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur. | Death and nature will be astounded, when all creation rises again, to answer the judgement. A book will be brought forth, in which all will be written, by which the world will be judged. |
| Judex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet, apparebit, nil inultum remanebit. | When the judge takes his place, what is hidden will be revealed, nothing will remain unavenged. |
| Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? quem patronum rogaturus, cum vix justus sit securus? | What shall a wretch like me say? Who shall intercede for me, when the just ones need mercy? |
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